Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-10

and produce well, while the apple, peach,
plum, prune, apricot and all the smaller
berries seem to mature to perfection, and
require the least of cultivation. Every
family has its orchards and vineyards
for domestic use, but as vet no one has
gone into the business extensively with a
view of furnishing the metropolitan mar
kcts or for Eastern shipment
Jackson Dennis, Wells Fargo's agent,
the telegraph operator, and one of Sutter
Greeks most enterprising and public-spirit-
ed citizens, has become impressed with
the idea that the fruit interest of this sec
tion is to become leading industry, and
has one of the best improved places in the
vicinity, besides having
A MODEL COUNTRY RESIDENCE
On the edge of the town. He has ten
acres in Symrna figs, some 800 trees, and
when they begin to bear he has an idea
his fortune will be made as it surely will.
This is the most extensive fig orchard of
that superior variety, in this section of
the State, and no doubt Mr.. Dennis will be
handsomely remunerated for his pioneer
movement in this important industry
which, some years hence, will be very
SeHerdlly engaged III.
DR.. j. l.. Mayon, "A cut of whose hand
some residence appears in this issue, has
also demonstrated the superior adapta-
bilIty of the sell and climate to the matur-
ing of fruits, and has large general va
rietv which will compare with that pro-
duced in any other locality CT the State.
The flora in his yard-the shrubbery and
tropical plants which grow in great pro-
fusion-not onl ly attest to the doctors good
TASTE FOR THE BEAUTIFUL,
But also to the fact that whatever can be
grown elsewhere can be produced in Sutter
Creek with least difficulty. The doctor is
a wideawake business man, social, whole
souled, philosophical, and is leader in
everything that is calculated to benefit the
community, socially or otherwise, and is
in the lead of every movement the object
Of which is to develop the latent resources
of this rich, but partially-developed section.
ITS EARLY HISTORY.
Like all of the original mining camps,
Sutter Creek has history which, if writ
ten with the thrilling incidents that trans
pired within its limits during the Pioneer
days, would read like the veriest romance.
mined here in lS4S, there was little done
until the discovery of quartzin 1851 The
mining at first was of the most primitive
character, the cradle or the rocker being
the principal method of separating the gold
from the earth. In the spring of 1850 a
great improvement was made. Jim
Wheeler, Boz. Goodrich and Dick Moulton
brought a long tom, which was first used
in the northern mines, from Sacramento
1t was a daring innovation, and, like most
new things, was numerically ridiculed by
the conservative portion Of the miners. 1t
was only seven feet i'll length and sixteen
inches in width. Small as it was, it effected
a great saving of labor, and was soon
brought into general use, though year
later it was displaced by the string of
sluices, which enabled the miners to make
good wages out of much poorer dirt After
the discovery of quartz mines, the energy
of the best men of Sutter Creek was turned
to that industry, which has been the lead
ing one since, and placer mining became
minor interest.